Month: January 2019

An article in the Dallas Morning News dated January 28, 2000, had a headline of “Pope clears sainthood path for native born American.”  There is more to this than was stated in the article from the Washington Post.  In 1992 while researching the files about Freedmans Cemetery on Central Expressway, the following information was found in the…
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by Kathy Ann Reid, 1/23/2020 William Cunningham (W. C.) Hunnicutt (1818-1868) and wife, Nancy Beeman Hunnicutt (1821-1914), started Hunnicutt’s School in 1856. The exact location is unknown, but it is assumed to have been on Hunnicutt land. The current location at 2444 Telegraph Ave., Dallas, Texas, is near Hunnicut Road and not far from W.…
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